Issue 1 // September 2018
Dieter MĂźller Ivan Morin Sabine de Zoysa Isabel Tenbrink Stavros Stamatiou Uwe Bedenbecker Penny Taylor
@underhorses
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Welcome to underhorses The underhorses project is born out of my passion for horses and photography. Underhorses will show all possible ways how to see horses, from horse lovers to professional photographers, all who like this subject. The internet with different platforms as facebook, instagram and others, is just like a big image gallery. I see this as a repository and will as well show projects found there. In this issue, it starts with the facebook group „As seen through horses‘ ears“, where photos from all around the world are posted showing the perspective through horses ears when you are riding. ------------------Meine eigene Intention der Pferdefotografie ist die Leidenschaft für Pferde und Fotografie. Daraus ist underhorses entstanden. Underhorses soll die verschiedensten Aspekte und Sichtweisen der Pferdefotografie beleuchten, und wenn erreichbar Profis, Amateure und alle die sich dem Thema verbunden sehen zeigen. Gerade das Internet hat sich mit Facebook, Instagram und weiteren Plattformen zu einer Bildergalerie sondersgleichen entwickelt. Dies als Fundgrube zu nennen, ist sicher nicht verkehrt. Aus diesem Bereich werde ich einige Projekte vorstellen, die mir aufgefallen sind. Den Anfang macht die Facebook Gruppe „As seen through horses‘ ears“, die Fotos sammelt, die durch die Ohren eines Pferdes aufgenommen wurden, von Menschen aus der ganzen Welt gepostet. Isabel Tenbrink
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Contents Underhorses 01 People Dieter Mueller | 5 Yvan Morin | 12 Sabine de Zoysa | 20 Isabel Tenbrink | 24 Stavros Stamatiou | 36 Uwe Bedenbecker | 42 Penny Taylor | 62
Projects As seen through horses‘ ears | 72
Š All Images and Texts copyright by the photographers, printing, reusing, publishing without their permission is forbidden.
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Underhorses / 01 / Dieter MĂźller
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Underhorses / 01 / Dieter Müller
Dieter Mueller Mannheim, Germany https://www.facebook.com/dieter.mueller.56 Dieter Müller fotografiert zu seinem eigenen Vergnügen und hat einen ganz besonderen Stil. Pferde fotografiert er nur wenn sie ihm über den Weg laufen. Schön, dass sie das gelegentlich tun, denn er erfasst ihre Schönheit und ihr Wesen in diesen Bilder hervorragend. Dieter Müller takes photos for his own pleasure and has a special style. Photos of horses happen sometimes, but I hope it will happen more often as he shows the beauty and the being of them outstanding.
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Underhorses / 01 / Yvan Morin
Yvan Morin Windsor, Quebec, Canada https://www.facebook.com/yvan.morin.735 Horses and camera, in time and space: they have suavity , graciousness , curiosity and keenness . Their bearing-a language ripe with details-and their grace as they allow us to play with them are some of the many thing i try to capture . Mostly with Leica M9 , Rolleiflex 3,5 and Pentax asahi k1000 . In a way to keep them close to their real nature, all horses here are in a loose housing stable wich mean in a system where horses are not put into individual stalls. It have to be large enough so several horses can be inside at the same time and walk freely in and out of the stable . No doubt mankind never captured the horse. It is he who came to us , for we are not strong or fast enough to catch him. Many thanks to Anne-Marie and her friends , ponies and horses Yvan Morin
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Underhorses / 01 / Sabine de Zoysa
Sabine de Zoysa www.sabines-reiturlaub.de Vor 42 Jahren fuhr ich, einer Sehnsucht folgend, nach Rajasthan (Indien) und entdeckte dort f체r mich die Marwari Pferde. Ich arbeitete einige Saisonen in Udaipur auf einer Pferdefarm. Dort trainierte ich Marwaris f체r Reitsafaris, lernte den Reeval (vierte Gangart 채hnlich dem Rennpass der Isl채nder) kennen und leitete und begleitete die Safaris. In Jaipur arbeitete ich zwei Saisonen und lernte dort die Grundausbildung der Polopferde kennen. Seit 20 Jahren organisiere ich nun privat Reitsafaris mit anschliessender Rundreise in Rajasthan. Sabine discovered Marwari horses in India over 40 years ago. She had a kind of desire for the country, so she worked some seasons on horse farms in Udaipur. Back in Germany, she organises horse trails in India since 20 years now.
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Underhorses / 01 / Isabel Tenbrink
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Isabel Tenbrink www.isapage.com Germany Ich fotografiere Pferde aus Leidenschaft, wobei das Pferd im Vordergrund steht, nicht die romantische oder sportlich aussagekräftigste Darstellung, sondern oftmals eine eher kßnstlerische Herangehensweise. Diese Bilder sind keine Serie sondern die Aufnahmen eines Pferdes ßber einen langen Zeitraum hinweg. Immer wieder neu entdeckt und einiges ausprobiert.
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I have a passion for horses and horse photography. The main focus in my pictures is not the romantic or competitive view of the horse, more artistic. These pictures are about one horse over a long period. But always discovering new aspects.
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Underhorses / 01 / Stavros Stamatiou
Stavros Stamatiou Greece http://stavrosstam.weebly.com/ https://www.facebook.com/people/Stavros-Stamatiou/1537524844 https://www.instagram.com/stamatiou_stavros/ I started taking photos of horses about 7 years ago. At the beginning I was only following an impulse- there was no plan, no specific purpose, nothing to guide me, to give me a direction. Eventually I realized that I was subconsciously following the echoes of some horse paintings I loved as a kid, like Salvatore Dali’s “The temptation of Saint Anthony” or Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica”, all meddled with some horse stories I have been told by my grandfather, who used to breed horses a long time before I was born. In my photography the horse is not a “beautiful animal”. It is a rebel, a symbol of power, a mystical instrument, a creature that defines its own environment. And above all, a silent martyr of the human history through the ages.
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Underhorses / 01 / Uwe Bedenbecker
Uwe Bedenbecker Germany Instagram: uwe_bedenbecker Uwe devotes himself to free photography projects and is a keen photobook collector in addition to his work in the flower and plants segment. He is a self-taught photographer and expanded his knowledge in workshops with well-known photographers and photobook experts such as Wolfgang Zurborn, Markus Schaden and Harvey Benge. His work was shortlisted at the Dummy Award Kassel 2015 and he was a nominee at the ViennaPhotoBookAward 2016. In his photography, Uwe puts a special emphasis on the examination of the relationship between humans and nature in different cultures of our world. He finds his subjects mainly in cities as well as on remote islands: both are places where civilisation and nature encounter each other in an area of limited space. So far Uwe has published two zines: „Dialectics of Nature“ (published in the Zine Collection of Editions Bessard 2015) and „London Windows Nature and One Tattoo“ (Caravanbook, Spain, 2017). Uwe lives with his wife Bettina in Meerbusch and both love travelling and reading a (photo)book in their small garden.
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Meerbusch (2016)
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Lottum (2018)
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Barcelona (2015)
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Abu Dhabi (2015)
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Aix-en-Provence (2017)
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NearArles (2018)
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Barcelona (2015)
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Saint-Tropez (2018)
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Wien (2016)
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Neuss (2016)
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DĂźsseldorf (2018)
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Wien (2016)
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Vietnam (2006)
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Abu Dhabi (2015)
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Neuss (2016)
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Meerbusch (2016)
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Meerbusch (2018)
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Wien (2016)
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DĂźsseldorf (2016)
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Underhorses / 01 / Penny Taylor
Penny Taylor Canada www.instagram.com/penshoots Meltemi and I
Photography for me is a long-held passion. For 15 years, I had a side-line business in B&W fine art solo exhibitions and stock agency work. I always have a camera at hand and have now moved on to other fields. But my love of horses is still as strong as it ever was, and I often think there is nothing more beautiful to capture with the lens. As a young girl, I rode for years, spending all my spare time at the stables. In keeping with all teenagers involved with horses, my bedroom walls were covered with pictures of them, tack and riding gear were scattered everywhere and the delicious smell of horse was never far away. At the age of 18, I had to make a tough choice. To ride, or continue on with my piano studies to get my Bachelor of Music degree. Music won out, but it was a close call. After finishing school, the Siren of the Horse called me back. Since then and every November, I`ve taken time off my job to work at Toronto’s Royal Horse Show. This century-old event is part of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and as such is a huge part of growing up in this city. Once the Fair is in your blood, it never leaves. The Royal provides urban dwellers the chance to see first-hand the amount of hard work, responsibility and dedication that goes into show-life. It’s a much-loved and cherished institution. For exhibitors, entering the Main Ring at the Royal is a very big deal, as qualifying for the show has been part of their goal-setting for the end of the year. Top entrants in jumper, dressage, hunter, heavy horse, pony, harness and coach classes come from all over Canada and the United States. Many breeds are judged on the line, and worldwide show-jumping teams compete in big prize-money classes. This series is my homage to the Royal. From largely, behind the scenes.
Hugely passionate about horses as a teenager, I rode and showed for many years the horse I’m pictured with here, who was stabled north of the city. Her name was Meltemi, and she was a fractious mare and a giant at 17hh. With a strong will and mind of her own, she was a handful. In the beginning, if I had a dime for every time she galloped wildly around the ring during my lessons with me feeling like an insignificant fly on her back - trying desperately to regain control - I would have been a millionaire. Yet despite this inauspicious start, our bond was strong and she and I grew to be inseparable. Because of her, my formative years around horses were happy ones. I lived to ride. Fast forward. Two summers ago when I was listening to a jazz station online, a song called Meltemi came on. I looked at my computer in amazement as the title scrolled by and was instantly transported back to those years with my sweet girl. And only days later while I was at the waterfront, I took a double-take as a sailboat with that very same name on her stern glided by. (Great name for a boat actually, as the Meltemi winds on the Aegean Sea are known to be strong and tempestuous.) All of this was eerie enough given the time frame in which these events occurred, but when I mentioned them to a friend and sent her this image of Meltemi and I, she said….’Look at what’s on your shirt!’
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Underhorses / 01 / As seen through horses ears
As seen through horses‘ ears www.facebook.com/asthe
In June, 2011, I had a funny idea for a Facebook group and called it „As Seen Through Horses‘ Ears“. I had a FB friend who had inspired me by posting many wonderful through-theears views and I thought it would be fun to see if other people would like to post similar views. I remember being amazed when the group quickly went over 100 members, and many of them people I DIDN‘T EVEN KNOW! :O I had expected many of my horsie friends to join but was astonished when it quickly spread like ripples in the water far beyond my own acquaintances. Soon it became clear that I wasn‘t going to be able to manage the group by myself, and I got a dedicated handful of volunteers to help with the admin duties. It was really tough in the first few years keeping the focus of the group and holding it to it‘s original theme. I know a lot of people probably thought I was a some kind of maniacal control freak, but I didn‘t want the group to morph into a general horse group with just any kind of photos. My fellow admins did a fantastic job of keeping true to the spirit of the group. If you were one of the original admins, please „stand up“ :D (I am afraid to name names for fear that I will leave someone out.) After 4½ years of many hours a day devoted to ASTHE, I retired the reins of the group and trusted that the capable admin group would take good care of my baby. And what a great job they have all been doing!!! With a mind-blowing membership of 45,289, ASTHE is a thriving and positive group. My heartfelt thanks go out to our current admins: Bill Shaw Bridget Tomchick Susan Ross Corneel Muus Helen Newton Marianna Haworth Heidi Bulfin But most of all, my thanks and sincerest gratitude goes to every one of you 45,289 members who post beautiful photos of your corners of the world, who enjoy the views of others, and to you who are inspired to get out and experience the world from horseback. Keep riding! -Lisa, the original Evil Admin
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Underhorses / 01 / As seen through horses ears Dagmar Dora Amazing horses in iceland with dynhestar Riding My favorite horse blĂda.
Debra Bullion Sutherland Feeling small, in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias. Yosemite National Park, California, USA.
Emily Oran Windy winters day. But my partner and I still managed to get a ride in. Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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franka-vulto When one of the free-horses photobombs your photo with a great smile ?? The next one of my spam, made before a huge hailstorm in Kirgistan!
i-ping_soongs As you know, Puff, my husband’s 17hh 25yo OTTB, loves children. He took a break from long reining to say hi to these 3 at the bus stop. More pics in the comments. At the bus stop outside Lo Wu Correctional Institution, Ho Sheung Heung Road, Sheung Shui, Hong Kong
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Underhorses / 01 / As seen through horses ears Jayne Fife Hacking to our galloping spot at 6AM. Eagle, Idaho USA.
Marie Morstol The view from Molde (Norway) seen through my fjords ears.
Meli Melinda Today‘s hot and also freezing ride because of a rainy storm, with two amazing mares near to Cristuru Secuiesc, Harghita Country, Transylvania, Romania.
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Quirina Equino I hope this one is allowed. The arena from a somewhat odd point of view. Still trough my 26 yo connemarapony Koala‘s ears. (Kortenaken, Belgium)
Rebeca Parry
Summer Martell
Could I have picked a better place to get lost Somewhere in Snowdonia National Park, Wales
My boy traced me a sand heart! Our new dressage pattern. Ocean Shores, Washington, USA
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Tess Wells Today’s training for endurance horse Barney. Marlborough, New Zealand.
Susan Ross Finally got this hack off my bucket list last weekend! Fyrish monument, Evanton Scottish Highlands UK, with Amber
Roz Williams Fat Bruce venturing off the farm today. We headed down to the beach, but you can‘t swim in the water here because the undertow will suck you in and it‘s hard to get out again! Also you‘ll notice it isn‘t typical sand.. it‘s a shingle beach! The stones come from the Waitaki River south of Timaru, which come from our beautiful Southern Alps and braided rivers!! Washdyke Beach, Timaru, New Zealand
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